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Michael Scott (Steve Carell) presides over the hilarity of The Office: Season Four.
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Published: September 4, 2008
Some cut 'Office' scenes as funny as those shown
The Office: Season Four (Unrated): Clueless boss Michael Scott (Steve Carell) and the long-suffering staff of Dunder Mifflin return in the 2007-08 season of NBC's hit sitcom. And as with previous seasons, this boxed set is a treasure chest for fans, with close to three hours of deleted scenes, many of them as funny as what made it on the air, plus extras including commentaries and faux commercials for the company and for rabies awareness (it makes sense in context, trust us). The show is well known for humor based on awkward social situations, and one episode in particular, about a dinner party gone awry, reaches the pinnacle of funny-but-painful. The DVD set also includes a reprint of the script to that episode, so you can follow along -- and see what bits got cut.
Son of Rambow (PG-13): This spirited comedy-drama, which was shown at this year's RiverRun Film Festival, follows two English boys in the 1980s as they become fascinated with the Rambo movie First Blood and set out to make their own version of it using home video equipment.
Then She Found Me (PG-13): Helen Hunt directed and stars in this drama, which was also shown at RiverRun, about a woman coming to terms with the birth mother she never knew (Bette Midler). Matthew Broderick and Colin Firth also star.
Water Lilies (Unrated): French filmmaker Celine Sciamma's debut feature is a soft-spoken drama of adolescent sexual awakening among three girls. The story is a fascinating exploration of female friendship, love, manipulation, betrayal and healing.
The Promotion (R): John C. Reilly and Seann William Scott play supermarket employees who clash as they try to climb the corporate ladder in this satire.
Married Life (PG-13): Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams and Pierce Brosnan star in this drama about a marriage threatened by infidelity.
Ballet Shoes (PG): Emma Watson of the Harry Potter films stars in this family film about three orphans who have been raised as sisters and pursue their dreams.
Bait Shop (PG): Bill Engvall (The Blue Collar Comedy Tour) and Billy Ray Cyrus star in this comedy about good ol' boys taking part in a fishing competition.
Bright Lights, Big City (R): Michael J. Fox shed his boy-next-door persona for this 1988 drama, now available in a new special edition, about a hard-partying, cocaine-snorting writer living in Manhattan. Kiefer Sutherland and Phoebe Cates also star.
How to Rob a Bank (Unrated): This heist film, about a bank robbery gone awry, stars Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen and Gavin Rossdale.
Outsourced (PG-13): This romantic comedy -- a film festival favorite -- follows a man (Josh Hamilton) who learns that his job has been outsourced, and then has to fly to India to train his own replacement and teach the workers in the Bombay office how to deal with Americans.
Fox Film Noir (Unrated): Three stylish dramas from the 1940s -- Moontide with Jean Gabin, Claude Rains and Ida Lupino; Boomerang, with Lee J. Cobb; and Road House, with Lupino, Cornel Wilde and Richard Widmark -- are available separately as special edition DVDs, with extras including commentaries by film historians, interactive pressbooks, still galleries and featurettes.
Absolutely Irish (Unrated): Irish musicians, including fiddlers, flute players, guitarists, singers, pipers, and more, are featured in this 70-minute concert, filmed live at the Irish Arts Center in New York.
Storm Over Everest (Unrated): This two-hour Frontline documentary looks at the worst climbing tragedy in Mount Everest history, a 1996 storm that trapped climbers in a fierce blizzard.
Lagerfeld Confidential (Unrated): This documentary looks at the life of legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Doctor Who (Unrated): The latest DVDs of the long-running British sci-fi series both feature Tom Baker, one of the most popular actors to play the time-traveling Doctor. In The Invasion of Time, he returns to his home world and begins acting erratically. In The Invisible Enemy, he helps fight an intelligent virus. Invisible Enemy is a two-disc set that also includes a second story, K9 and Company, which was produced in 1981 as a pilot for a spinoff series about the Doctor's sidekick, Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and her robot dog K9. Sarah Jane (still played by Sladen) finally got her spinoff in 2007, minus K9.
Little People, Big World: Season 2 Volume 1 (Unrated): This TLC series follows Matt and Amy Roloff, who have dwarfism, as they raise a family of four, three of whom are of average height.
Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre (Unrated): For this anthology series, producer Duvall assembled some of the top directors and actors to create lively, lavish renditions of beloved fairy tales. Among the directors were Tim Burton, Roger Vadim, Nicholas Meyer, Francis Ford Coppola and Eric Idle. And the actors included James Earl Jones, Leonard Nimoy, Klaus Kinski, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Broderick, Alan Arkin, Joan Collins, Christopher Lee, Malcolm McDowell, Mick Jagger, James Coburn, Ned Beatty, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Mary Steenburgen and Vincent Price.
The Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow (Unrated): The children of famous superheroes, including Thor, Captain America, Black Panther, Giant-Man and The Wasp join forces in this straight-to-DVD animated film set in the future. An elderly Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man, acts as the mentor to this new generation of champions.
The Blue Elephant (PG): This animated family comedy, about a baby elephant separated from his herd, has a voice cast including Martin Short, Carl Reiner and Miranda Cosgrove.
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